Katie Price has split up with boyfriend Alex Reid. She announced the split live on TV after quitting the reality show “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!”
Price, who walked out on the jungle after being voted by the public to face a record breaking 6 consecutive bushtucker trial by the public, told presenters Ant and Dec her relationship with the cage fighter had ended after saying she had acted like a “right twit” over the past seven months.
Price told how she was leaving the show “with my head between my toes in shame”.
She continued “I’ve done a lot of reflecting. I think it’s best I’m on my own, I just don’t want to be in a relationship. I hope we can remain friends.”
She said she had done “a lot of thinking” while she was in the jungle, adding: “I have to think of me. I have to think of my children.
“I’ve come back a new person and I’m just going to have a fresh start. It’s done me so many favours in there and, I hold my hands up, the last seven months I have acted like a right twit but that was the way I dealt with things. I’m sorry if I upset people.”
Price said the whole experience had brought back memories of her ex-husband Peter Andre, she said: “The whole place reminded me of Pete from the moment I woke up, the afternoon to the moment I went to sleep, every second it was Pete, Pete, Pete and although they were amazing, happy memories I had in there, I’d lie there and think those good memories are way gone but then I was still there with constant reminders of Pete, Pete, Pete, Pete.
“It was hard to deal with before I went in there, I thought I’ll walk in there and either break down or deal with the closure. I walked in and they (the other celebrities) all welcomed me and it was so ironic that I had the same bed as last time; nobody wanted it because the bonfire smokes over it.
“That was really, really hard to deal with because waking up in the mornings I’d wake up and look over and think Peter’s going to be there and then I’d be like, course Pete’s not going to be there, I’m not with Pete any more.”
Earlier as Alex Reid boarded his flight to Australia he told waiting reporters: ‘I’m definitely asking her to marry me.
‘One idea is I make the proposal in front of the cameras on the show. But whatever happens I know this is right. I’ve never felt this way before.’
But it seems Katie didn’t share his feelings.
Sources close to the star said Alex was booked into the five star hotel Palazzo Versace on the Australian Gold Coast, where Jordan has stayed since her departure from the show.
But on his arrival the concierge had refused to tell him which room she was in.
The source said: ‘An hour before she appeared on air Jordan summoned him and told him it was over.
‘She was fed up with him making money from her. Friends say he is devastated.’
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